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EMERGING ARTISTSContemporary Experimental Films and Video Art From Germany
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WUNSCHKONZERT Marlene Denningmann 4
in between identities Aleksandar Radan 6
Surface Glaze Lotte Meret Effinger 8
Something About Silence Patrick Buhr 10
PLATEAU Vanessa Nica Mueller 12
MY BBY 8L3W Art Collective NEOZOON 16
LUCKY Ines Christine Geißer, Kirsten Carina Geißer 14
moon blink Rainer Kohlberger 18WARNING: This film contains flashing lights or
patterns which may trigger epileptic seizures.
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PRELUDE: CLOSE ALLIANCEFor the third time the German Short Film Association puts together a compilation of emerging artists. As the subtitle indicates, it is supposed to highlight contemporary experimental films and video art from Germany.
It is remarkable that film and video art can be brought together in one compilation - two worlds which seemed to fundamentally exclude each other until recently; two contrasted audiences were targeted, two different approaches to production were pursued.
But this compilation is symptomatic of a recent development in the moving image industry. In the last years the borders between cinema and art world have melted away. Film festivals all over the world but also the art markets show that filmmakers and artists are seeking solidarity.
Eventually the terms we use now – experimental film, short film, artists’ film, video art, time based media art - will perhaps become irrelevant. Yet, it is crucial to acknowledge that young artists also have something to say, making a significant contribution to the current discourse. Because only through real innovations and new inputs something shall develop.
In this sense it is very exciting to present the emerging artists that were selected this year. Marlene Denningmann, Aleksandar Radan, Lotte Meret, Patrick Buhr, Vanessa Nica Mueller, Ines Christine and Kirsten Carina Geißer, NEOZOON and Rainer Kohlberger – these are names we certainly will encounter more often in the coming years.
Olaf Stüber
Olaf Stüber is the initiator and curator of Videoart at Midnight, an artists’ cinema project in Berlin, which he runs with the collector Ivo Wessel. He is also the publisher of Videoart at Midnight Edition, lecturer and art adviser.
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director Marlene Denningmannproducer Marlene Denningmannscreenwriter Marlene Denningmanneditor Marlene Denningmanndirector of photography Julia Lohmanncast Lina Krüger, Laura Schuller, Wieland Schönfeldersound Patrick Dadaczynskisounddesign Ole Sünderhaufcolour design Tim Liebeorchestra Spielmanns- und FanfarenzugHahn-Nethen
synopsisA collective is a social entity, whose voluntarily organizing members are connected by joint action. In this definition the term “harmony” refers to harmonizing sounds. The syllables are separated as follows: a society in which every individual can make their dreams come true by performance and competition.
12:47 | Germany 2016 | experimental fiction | German dialogue | English subtitles
WUNSCHKONZERT
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bio Marlene Denningmann is a filmmaker and video artist based in Hamburg and Berlin. She is a co-founder of VETO Film.
about “Marlene Denningmann’s work shifts between avant-garde feature film and video art. The narrative and performative elements of her work generate strong emotions, offering a precise analysis of contemporaneity while continuing to surprise in their conceptual and formal language. Through an interplay of familiarity and alienation Denningmann recreates reality as variable experience.”(Susanne Weirich)
“Denningmann does not indulge in illusions, but yet in hope.” (Olaf Möller)
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Marlene Denningmann
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director Aleksandar Radanproducer Aleksandar Radanscreenwriter Aleksandar Radaneditor Aleksandar Radandirector of photography Aleksandar Radancast Aleksandar Radanproduction designer Aleksandar Radanmusic Aleksandar Radansound Aleksandar Radan
synopsis Somehow voyeuristic we observe in the film pawns in a virtual world, which are choreographed and directed by the filmmaker. We are part of the game of his own and the simulated identity. In these strange moments we explore innermost desires and curiosities, which we would never know otherwise.
IN BETWEEN IDENTITIES8:50 | Germany 2015 | experimental documentary | colour | no dialogue
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bio Aleksandar Radan was born in 1988. He is study-ing Fine Arts at the Offenbach University of Art and Design since 2010. His works include experimental film/video, installation and performance.
about The computer game itself provides a wonderful space of possibilities. It is a clearly structured applica-tion, which, however, in use can provide surprisingly intuitive moments again and again. Within this limited, programmed environment a new freedom of expression is created, outside of otherwise lived realities. With the short film IN BETWEEN IDENTI-TIES Aleksandar Radan has created a own language to tell virtual or animated characters. We are watching the figures in the diffuse zone between the player’s identity and the identity of the played character which are crossing this simulated space of possibilities.
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Aleksandar Radan
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director Lotte Meret Effingereditor Hauke Kleinschmidtdirector of photography Melanie Jilgproduction designer Lotte Meret Effingermusic Florian Meyersound Florian Meyer
synopsis The video work SURFACE GLAZE deals with the dissolution of human bodies and their occupation by prostheses and parasites.
For this purpose an aesthetic is used which links to consumer - and advertising industry: Extreme close and slow-motion shots unite fungal, blemishes and scale skin, hair, mouths and eyes to an indefinable new monstrous body. By exploiting the technology of consumer industry values as uniqueness and Individuality become immanent. The commercial imagery is appropriated and reinterpreted that makes SURFACE GLAZE so seductive as it is disturbing.
SURFACE GLAZE8:00 | Germany 2015 | experimental | no dialogue
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bio Lotte Meret Effinger graduated from the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design in 2014. Since then, she showed her work in different institutions among oth-ers at the Berlin Art Prize, Videonale16., Cairotronica, Kunsthalle Basel, Art Nova 100 in Bejing, Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Arsenale in Venice, Biennale Brno, ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe. Her work has been acquired by Lafayette Anticipation, Paris Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin and the Kunst-kredit Basel-Stadt.
artist’s statement A fundamental interest of mine is to articulate the confluence of the individual, society and economy. Therefore, historic paradigm shifts of symbolic order, transformations of political move-ments and identity – crisis in general, consistently draw my attention. I work with an aesthetic that, on the one hand, fascinates and technically challenges me, and on the other hand, serves my analytical and critical discoveries. This is a strategy to highlight the effectiveness of power structures and hierarchies in the social space.
contact [email protected]://lottemeret.com
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director Patrick Buhrscreenwriter Patrick Buhreditor Patrick Buhrdirector of photography Patrick Buhrvoice over Erik Hansenperformance Vanja Smiljanic, Sina Seifee, Matthias Conrady, Lia Sudermannmusic Marvin Horsch, Donghee Nam, Jonathan Kastlsound Jonathan Kastlanimation Patrick Buhrproducer Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
synopsis “You are here, because you are boring. Let the audio-visual experience sink into your subconscious in order to become more exciting and fashionable.”
SOMETHING ABOUT SILENCE12:22 | Germany 2015 | animation | colour | English, Korean dialogue | English subtitles
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bio Patrick Buhr is a media artist and animation freelancer based in Cologne; his work revolves around fragmented narration, ambivalent identities and contemplative association in animated short films
artist’s statement My films are about fictional char-acters that struggle to construct or reassure their identities through fragments of narration, associa-tions, metaphors and idiosyncratic digressions. SOMETHING ABOUT SILENCE deals with self-help culture, unprofessional hypnosis tutorials, the iden-tity labour involved in living up to capitalistic “non-boring” standards and the negative consequences this might have on everyday relationships that not always conform to the carefully crafted self-image.
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Patrick Buhr
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director Vanessa Nica Muellereditor Vanessa Nica Muellerdirector of photography Bernd Meiners,Vanessa Nica Muellerscreenwriter Vanessa Nica Muellersound Nika Breithauptsound design Nika Breithauptcast Thelma Buabeng, Michael Klammer,Mateja Mededproduction designer Rena Donsbachproducer Ingmar Boeschen, Vanessa Nica Mueller
synopsis One seems lost in an empty, abandoned urban scenario. Two find a place of shelter in a provisional room. PLATEAU is about a dystopian alienation, an isolation which, arising from the inner world of the protagonists, has inscribed itself in the exterior world. The locations chosen for PLATEAU were so-called shrinking cities in Germany.
PLATEAU12:43 | Germany 2015 | experimental | no dialogue
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bio Vanessa Nica Mueller works in Hamburg as a media artist and filmmaker. She is born in Munich as human and cosmopolitan. She studied film and timebased media at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem.
artist’s statement In her films and video art Vanessa Nica Mueller reflects the layers of our memory, the human in relation to encircling spaces and architecture, the uncanny and the cinematographic re-construction of inner conditions or emotions. She is focused on essayistic and associative narrative structures and combines documentary and poetic approach. Beside her last art films TRACES OF AN ELEPHANT (2011), HALBE NACHT (2012) and PLATEAU (2015) she real-ized some installations, for example MEMORY CRIME (2015). Concerning PLATEAU, finding the outside locations was an important part in the process of the film. The location research was focused on urban living areas with real problems of vacantness, mostly former industrial regions.
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Vanessa Nica Mueller
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director Ines Christine Geißer, Kirsten Carina Geißerproducer Ines Christine Geißerscreenwriter Kirsten Carina Geißer,Ines Christine Geißereditor Ines Christine Geißerdirector of photography Kirsten Carina Geißer,Ines Christine Geißermusic Michael Jason Parker Beckett, Jan Kristian Fuchssound FUCHS & BECKETTanimation Kirsten Carina Geißer,Ines Christine Geißer, Michel Esselbrüggespecial effects Jan Kristian Fuchs
LUCKY11:00 | Germany 2015 | animation | no dialogue
synopsis LUCKY is looking for happiness. This animated short is questioning our search as well as its aim: What does luck mean for the individual? Is failure the only possibility?
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bio Ines Christine Geißer: Born 1982 in Naila, Germany; studied Comic and Animation at the School of Art and Design Kassel and graduated in animation in 2013; she then became a master student of Prof. Martina Bramkamp; Kirsten Carina Geißer: Born 1986 in Naila, Germany; she studied Fine Arts at the Burg Giebichen-stein University of Art and Design in Halle/Saale; LUCKY is her diploma film
about ”The film focuses on the pursuit of happiness. Failure and desire play a part, and the sweet smell of childhood lingers in the air, but it has lost some of its romance. The idea that this film is maybe not about horses at all suggests itself quickly. These precious friends are simply well-suited for being protagonists as their image is not yet as worn as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny and they are still complex in terms of content. The horses trot and gallop across the screen and even drink at the bar. These horses are not happy, maybe for one exception. Loss follows great success, love is only answered by a painful lack of understanding, Black Beauty turns into Broken Beauty. This film does not play in Wendy-mode and neither serves the romance of horse loving teenagers.”(Prof. Jens Gussek)
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Ines Christine Geißer, Kirsten Carina Geißer
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director Art Collective NEOZOON synopsis A thirty track installation about women who present their pets on the internet. They declare all their love of their pedigree dogs and cats.
MY BBY 8L3W3:30 | France/Germany 2014 | experimental | English dialogue
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bio NEOZOON is a female art collective founded 2009 in Berlin and Paris.
artist’s statement NEOZOON’s work focuses on the relationship between animals and humans, and how modern societies deal with both – dead and living animals. Neozoon actions take place in public spaces: city streets, public institutions and the web. Their artistic mediums range from collage to installations and film. Recycling found footage is also a recurring element in their work, where the group often employs amateur videos from YouTube. Amongst others their work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the HKW in Berlin, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, the ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the IFFR in Rotterdam.
contact [email protected]://neozoon.org
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Art Collective NEOZOON
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director Rainer Kohlbergerproducer Rainer Kohlbergerscreenwriter Rainer Kohlbergereditor Rainer Kohlbergersound Rainer Kohlbergeranimation Rainer Kohlberger
synopsis MOON BLINK was entirely generated by complex software, no camera was used. The result of this formal method is an abstract digital artwork that not only manages to convince thanks to its mathematical precision, but primarily also due to its incredible beauty and surprising narrative structure.
MOON BLINK10:00 | Austria, Germany 2015 | animation | no dialogue
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bio Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born freelance visual artist / film maker living in Berlin.
artist’s statement My work is based on algorithmically composed sounds and images with reductionistic aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones and interference. Within there lies a layer of noise, that fascinates me as a sense of the infinite, which is both the ultimate abstraction and inveterately fuzzy. I use the possibilities that the present, digital projection technology offers in a radical way to provide the audience with powerful physical and metaphysical experiences. Image surface and image space meld into one (consciousness-)state, in which categories such as being and non-being, material and immaterial appear obsolete.
contact [email protected]://kohlberger.net
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Rainer Kohlberger
German FilmsHerzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 • 80331 Munich • Germany
Martin ScheuringPhone: +49 (0)89 59978712E-Mail: [email protected] www.german-films.de
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AG Kurzfilm - German Short Film AssociationFörstereistr. 36 • 01099 Dresden • Germany
Anne TurekPhone: +49 (0)351 4045575E-Mail: [email protected] www.ag-kurzfilm.de
For the third time the AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association and German Films compiled a program, dedicated to the young experimental film and video art from Germany.“Emerging Artists” wants to support experimental, highly artistic works that can not only be seen at film festivals but also in museums or galleries. This curated program is available for screenings in various formats. There is also the possibility to invite filmmakers for presenting the program. Please contact us for booking and details.
We thank the jury who selected the seven works for the second edition of “Emerging Artists” from more than 120 submissions – Giovanna Thiery (Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media), Insa Wiese (International Short Film Week Regensburg), Alfred Rotert (European Media Art Festival), and Gerhard Wissner (Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival).
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